How's this for a brilliant photograph

[cliveh]

Just look at the composition and timing:-

Concrete in Life Photo of the Year: Picture of kite flyers wins top prize

The winner of the Concrete in Life Photo of the Year competition has been announced.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Sirius Glass]

Children playing can make great photographs.

 

[mshchem]

Global concrete and cement lobbyists are great photo judges

 

[cliveh]

Global concrete and cement lobbyists are great photo judges

What are you implying?

 

[Daniela]

Really beautiful capture...I just find myself wishing it had some grain

 

[fiddle]

Until they find out next week that the original photo they were just holding sticks, kites were added in post.

joking

 

[Don_ih]

Until they find out next week that the original photo they were just holding sticks, kites were added in post.

Truthfully, I did look to see that they were actually different children and different kites. I'm still not sure they're different kids. According to the photographer's website, "Most of his works are realistic photomontage." It wouldn't really matter to me if it was a composite - he can make whatever photo he wants.

 

[awty]

Poor kids haven't got nice grassy fields to fly their kites.
They'll trip and skin their knees and bleed all over the concrete.

 

[koraks]

According to the photographer's website, "Most of his works are realistic photomontage."

Ah that explains it. At first glance, I found several things odd about that photograph. How the front kid's foot touches the floor, for instance, especially in combination with the shadow. The light seemingly bending around that wall to the left. It just doesn't add up, visually.

Global concrete and cement lobbyists are great photo judges

Well, their selection does paint an unsettlingly dystopian picture of the world we live in. I wonder if these guys (?) did that on purpose.

 

[VinceInMT]

I find it to be a nice image regardless of how it came about which got me wondering if, when an image is called a ”photograph,” there is an implication (and expectation) that what we are viewing is something that exists, or existed, in reality.

 

[Saganich]

The kids really show off the subject

 

[awty]

Truthfully, I did look to see that they were actually different children and different kites. I'm still not sure they're different kids. According to the photographer's website, "Most of his works are realistic photomontage." It wouldn't really matter to me if it was a composite - he can make whatever photo he wants.

He should of but the boys on prancing horses while flying kites....now that would of been a great shot.

 

[Don_ih]

He should of but the boys on prancing horses while flying kites....now that would of been a great shot.

It's on concrete steps, so maybe they should have been on motorcyles.

I once had to carry concrete in 5-gallong buckets up 4 flights of stairs to pour a landing. Fond memories.

I find it to be a nice image regardless of how it came about which got me wondering if, when an image is called a ”photograph,” there is an implication (and expectation) that what we are viewing is something that exists, or existed, in reality.

I think, unless it's explicitly stamped on the face of the photo, the majority of people will look at every photo and think it was "natural" - that the scene depicted did exist, just as it looks in the photo. But I also think that a few years of AI has done more to damage the naivety of viewers than Photoshop could manage in decades.

 

[ic-racer]

I submitted too but mine did not get accepted This happened just one second later...

 

[Erik L]

I submitted too but mine did not get accepted This happened just one second later...

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Brilliant!

 

[cliveh]

And I thought it was real